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The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.

This monochrome image depicts a woodcock, flying from the right to the left, over a field which is bordered by trees. In the background, above a distant hill, a full moon rises.

Day four of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a pen and pencil drawing of a woodcock (one of my favourite birds) flying out to forage as the full moon rises behind a distant hill.

A zoomed in photo of a black and white patterned bird clinging to the side of a wooden bird feeder. It has red on its head and throat.

It’s the bird whose name sounds like a Shakespearean insult!!!

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿

My doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer

I haven't read Doors of Eden yet, but Service Model is probably my favourite of the ~160 books I've read so far this year, so if you're in the US, snap it up!

A black cat on a red sofa cushion. The cat is in the form of a circle.

round

Three jewelry boxes with pocket watch cases. Each case has a handmade clay scene with a narwhal swimming over magical, swirly waves against a glittery night sky.

A pink swirl gremlet (fabric made from my drawings!) with big ears and a silly face.

A trio of writing familiar enamel pins on their backing cards. A turtle, a dragon, and a cat each with a fountain pen.

A one of a kind polymer clay crow! This little one sparkles from deep blue to purple depending on the light, the chameleon powder on its wings sparkles with extra magic! It's wings and eyes are accented with rhinestones in two different colors.

There are still many magical things in the shop! Make sure you get your holiday orders in by December 15th. 🧶 #bsnm
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Cartoon of stylised drawings of a pig seen head on (labelled Pig) and a hedge (labelled hege) seen in section. The area where they overlap forms the shape of a hedgehog. Caption: VENN DIAGRAM

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Watercolor painting using only blue paint. 2 snow covered trees on the left and one on the right. Little tracks in the snow on the hill the left trees are on. Blurs of gently falling snow in the sky.

Today in #artadventcalendar, watercolor snowy trees.

19th C engraving by Doré of inside the East End docks, depicting cannon, ships, rigging, sailors, and dockyard buildings and cranes.

Doré 19th C engraving depicing warehousing in the City, depicting workers at openings in a buildings wall, managing craned barrells and large bundles.

Doré's 19th C prints of East End London are utterly fascinating, many feel claustraphobic with the amount of activity & people depicted. Living close to the old dockyards, its hard to imagine only 150 years ago they were so different
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Clouds erase the top of the Tokyo Skytree this morning and a large crane on the Sumida river conspires with a camera angle to make it all look like time is moving backwards and a tower is being unbuilt. A seagull flies by to check out what’s up.

deconstruction

A wren in silhouette, perky as all get out. Plump body, pert head, tail pointing up in the air.

Advent bird No. 1

Wren

Scientific name: Troglodytes troglodytes

Alternative name: Tiny Shouter

Finnish name: peukaloinen

Song: tsib-a-tsab-a-tsoo-diddy-dabble-iddy-wodda-tsipp-a-brrrrr-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip—tjop-tsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—-ts’tjupp-tjupp-tjupp-tjupp

Two adult male Anna’s hummingbirds are sitting almost side by side on a feeder that has a camera built in. Their throats and top of heads are iridescent red/fuchsia.

What a couple of handsome boys! Those gorgets, very nice 🩷
🪶 Anna’s hummingbirds SoCal

Holly bushes terrify the Earl.

The World’s Oldest Wild Bird Just Came Back at 75 to Her Pacific Island Home and Is Still Laying Eggs At 75, a legendary albatross returns to her island home — and to her mate.

This just makes me happy.

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Palme D’Or Winner Kore-eda Has Directed A Live-Action Adaptation Of Tatsuki Fujimoto Manga ‘Look Back’, Teaser Posters Revealed The coming-of-age story follows two girls passionately pursuing their dreams of becoming manga artists.

Kore-eda coming to rip your heart out next year. deadline.com/2025/12/kore...

A young king vulture standing on a table with his back toes crossed over each other

Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.

Wading bird facing viewer but looking to left, black beak and eye, white breast and neck speckled with brown and brown/grey top of head and back.

#ArtDD2025
Sanderling

Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar

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They are holding a giant rat with pliers

A closeup of the rat’s face shows him looking VERY proud of himself

my dad was having problems with his truck and so he looked in the engine and found the source of the problems, alive and surrounded by so many nuts they thought it was squirrel at first

A collection of dried flowers, seedheads, shells, a medieval thimble, a jay feather & a tiny owl arranged on some white watercolour paper so the colours shift gently from one side to the other

My brain’s not well at all today-depression, but I made this photo to try to lift my dark thoughts & have hidden a tiny owl in it. If you find it &/or your brain likes this image maybe let me know below? Connecting with other humans is another way to lift very low mood 🌿

Cones, sycamore keys, dried berries, acorns & their caps, seedheads & lichen twigs arranged on a white background. Hidden in the photo is a tiny deer stag for you to find.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

Bad slogans and kittens are cool, but what you feed really needs is a baby dolphin. #marinelife

A large hole dug around leftover cement someone dumped decades before we bought the house. Glove and shovel to scale.

God help me, if I sledgehammer up this shitty concrete pad and find yet another skeleton…

Glanced at photos before reading text. Had brief moment of horror thinking there was a hand emerging from under the slab.

A woman on the tube yawns and I watch as her yawn travels gently around the rest of the carriage until finally returning exhausted to her.

Rolling hills in moonlight and shadow. Limited palette of browns, ochres, greys and white.

Outline of hills on a stormy night. Golds and browns picked out in the moonlight.

Layers of hills filling the canvas beneath a strip of grey sky. Dark browns, greens and greys, with a warm white pathway leading through the valley.

Dark, limited palette again, browns, ochres and greys. Suggestion of a mountain ridge in think fog an darkness; moonlight lighting up the swirling clouds.

Painting darkness (my 4 most recent pieces.) www.artachart.com

Section of platform in railway station photographed in horizontal lines. Brown bricks with yellow line on bottom. Then stippled pale yellow concrete. Then plain concrete at top

Railway Station Rothko 😉
#SensoryArt #Lines #ArtYear

... did you grow up in a fairy tale?

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

A phone.